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Originally posted by syzygy@
bradybaker, there are many people who have directly experienced God, Allah, Ultimate Reality, Tao, Buddha-nature, whatever you want to call it in different cultures and different times and have explained the same experience. The Indian philosophers, the Christian mystics, the enlightened Zen masters, Islamic Sufis, Buddhas, shamans, many more. If you are interested, check out any of the following people: Mesiter Eckhart, D.T. Suzuki, Suhrawardi, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, William Law, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Zoroaster, Jalal-uddin Rumi, Philo, Huang-Po, Plotinus, the list could go on.
Hearsay and ancient anecdotes are no substitution for logic and empirical evidence.